Comment 2 for bug 66795

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:33:09PM -0000, Alex Sutcliffe wrote:
> Hi Quinn,
> Can you tell which versions of Ubuntu and bittorrent-gui you're using?
>
> I'm using edgy and 3.4.2-6ubuntu3. An apt-cache show gives
>
> ..
> Depends: python (>= 2.4), python (<< 3), bittorrent (>= 3.4.2-1), python-wxgtk2.
> 4 | python-wxgtk2.6
> ..
>
> When I first installed bittorrent-gui it pulled in python-wxgtk2.4 and
> it worked fine. However I was able to re-create the error by doing
> installing python-wxgtk2.6 and then removing python-wxgtk2.4.
> bittorrent-gui dependencies were still met but I got the same error as
> above.

You're right... I already had python-wxgtk2.6 installed at the point
when I installed bittorrent-gui, so I ended up with the problem
behavior.

The problem is that bittorrent-gui requires python-wxgtk2.4 _or_
python-wxgtk2.6. However, as you pointed out, the code insists on
version 2.4:

> Looking at /usr/bin/btcompletedirgui.bittorrent this seems to be the
> problem:
>
> ...
>
> try:
> import wxversion
> wxversion.select('2.4')
> from wxPython.wx import *
> except:
> print 'Could not load wxPython. In order to use this script,'
> print 'you must have wxPython installed. It is available in'
> print 'the package libwxgtk2.4-python.'
> ...
>
> I'm afraid I don't know the correct way to resolve this.

I think we should trust the code. If it's asking for version 2.4,
it's probably doing so for a good reason. The dependencies should
be changed so that bittorrent-gui requires python-wxgtk2.4 specifically,
not "python-wxgtk2.4 or python-wxgtk2.6". That's just my take...